Nehemiah 8:12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:22

and they ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great joy. They made David's son Solomon king a second time; they anointed him as the Lord's prince, and Zadok as priest.

Nehemiah 8:10

Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions of them to those for whom nothing is prepared, for this day is holy to our Lord; and do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Nehemiah 8:11

So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved.”

Nehemiah 8:13

On the second day the heads of ancestral houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to the scribe Ezra in order to study the words of the law.

Esther 9:22

as the days on which the Jews gained relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and presents to the poor.

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured in my bosom the words of his mouth.

Psalm 119:111

Your decrees are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 119:127

Truly I love your commandments more than gold, more than fine gold.

Psalm 119:130

The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.

Psalm 119:14

I delight in the way of your decrees as much as in all riches.

Psalm 119:16

I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

Psalm 119:171

My lips will pour forth praise, because you teach me your statutes.

Psalm 119:174

I long for your salvation, O Lord, and your law is my delight.

Psalm 119:72

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Psalm 119:97

Oh, how I love your law! It is my meditation all day long.

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

Luke 24:32

They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?”

Romans 7:18

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.

Revelation 11:10

and the inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to the inhabitants of the earth.